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Killing the Pain of Hunger with One Bowl of Soup at a Time!

Valdosta Community Soup Kitchen. Killing the Pain of Hunger with One Bowl of Soup at a Time!. By: Abigail Sutton. Missions. To feed the hungry. To help people acquire information on ways of getting the necessary everyday needs to survive.

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Killing the Pain of Hunger with One Bowl of Soup at a Time!

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  1. Valdosta Community Soup Kitchen Killing the Pain of Hunger with One Bowl of Soup at a Time! By: Abigail Sutton

  2. Missions • To feed the hungry. • To help people acquire information on ways of getting the necessary everyday needs to survive. • To give people information on how to obtain information on where to go to get additional resources that are available.

  3. Goals • To make sure that everyone who enters the facility receives a nutritional meal. • To make sure that each individual is received and welcomed and treated with dignity and respect. • To offer any means of support available e.g. meals, emotional, spiritual.

  4. History • Established the idea of feeding hungry in 1982 by a group of Valdosta churches. • Ralph Bridges put in charge of organizing the foundation, is currently serving as chairmen of board. • 1st lunch served in 1983 served about 13 lunches on first day.

  5. Legal Description • The Soup Kitchen is classified as a 501c-3 organization with the IRS.

  6. Membership • The organization has 8 members on the board of directors. • There are 3 paid employees. • Mr. Bridges states that between the board and employees and volunteers there is enough to get the job done. • The organization has dropped in membership throughout the years but this has not hurt the task at hand.

  7. Volunteer • Started out with about 148 volunteers. • The organization used to schedule volunteers. • Volunteers were unreliable. • Volunteers started to decline so scheduling dropped. • Currently have about 7-8 steady volunteers.

  8. Clients • Typically the soup kitchen serves between 145-150 lunches in a day. • This group consist of transients, homeless families, people from all walks of life. • There is no screening process whomever walks in is fed. • There is no charge, if the client would like to make a donation there is a jar to leave donation in.

  9. Crisis • The soup kitchen is going to be facing a dilemma in the near future; they are going to be remodeling the facilities that they are currently in so they have to move out for a period of time. The place that they have to relocate is considerably smaller and they are concerned with how they will accommodate all of their clients.

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